Vacant
['veɪk(ə)nt] or ['vekənt]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) without an occupant or incumbent; 'the throne is never vacant' .
(adj.) void of thought or knowledge; 'a vacant mind' .
贾尔斯錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.
(a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.
(a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.
(a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.
(a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.
杰西卡校對
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Empty, void, unfilled.[2]. Disengaged, not busied, unoccupied.[3]. Thoughtless, unthinking.
手打:肖恩
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Empty, leisure, unemployed, unencumbered, unoccupied, void, unfilled, mindless,exhausted
ANT:Full, replenished, business, employed, engaged, occupied, filled, thoughtful
錄入:罗兰
解釋/意思:
adj. empty: free: not occupied by an incumbent or possessor: not occupied with study &c.: thoughtless inane.—n. Vā′cancy emptiness: idleness: empty space void or gap between bodies: a situation unoccupied: (Shak.) unoccupied or leisure time.—adv. Vā′cantly.—v.t. Vacāte′ to leave empty: to quit possession of: (obs.) to annul to make useless.—ns. Vacā′tion a vacating or making void or invalid: freedom from duty &c.: recess: break in the sittings of law-courts: school and college holidays; Vacā′tionist one travelling for pleasure.—adj. Vacā′tionless.—n. Vacā′tur the act of annulling in law.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I sat down in the vacant chair--gently unclasped the poor, worn, restless fingers, and took both her hands in mine. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Sloppy had gradually expanded with his description into a stare and a vacant grin. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocks lurk beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- When the sounds ceased, the Grand Master glanced his eye slowly around the circle, and observed that the seat of one of the Preceptors was vacant. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Suddenly he was sobered: a vacant space appeared near Miss de Bassompierre; the circle surrounding her seemed about to dissolve. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I steeled myself against the delusion; the room itself was vacant: it was only prudent, I repeated to myself, to examine the rest of the house. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Anything like a fixed, vacant expression? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- As to those vacant Pagets one is tired of seeing them, they are so proud and stupid. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Yeobright sat down in one of the vacant chairs, and remained in thought a long time. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There he stood, his eyes still fastened on the flames in a changeless, vacant stare. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He raised his head,--the woman's place was vacant! 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- He stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- You touch me, sir,--you hold me, and fast enough: I am not cold like a corpse, nor vacant like air, am I? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It is vacant now, and I will rent it at once. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Two others remained there, and there was a vacant place for the third. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- And Mrs. Dorset leaned back against her travelling cushions with a smile which made Lily wish there had been no vacant seat beside her own. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- After remaining a week at Dijon, until thirty of our number deserted the vacant ranks of life, we continued our way towards Geneva. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- And when they had children the vacant corners in both their lives would be filled. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- So he sat, with a steadfastly vacant gaze, pausing in his work. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- He had not to wait and wish with vacant affections for an object worthy to succeed her in them. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- His eyes looked at me again with the painful expression of inquiry, so wistful, so vacant, so miserably helpless to see. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- She began waving her hand at me in a vacant, unmeaning manner. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- We found our old lodging vacant, and in half an hour were quietly established there, as if we had never gone away. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I'll fill the vacant peg then. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- When the higher natures are corrupted by politics, the lower take possession of the vacant place of philosophy. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- He wants me to ascend the throne when vacant. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- There is in every village a vacant dwelling called the strangers' house. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- On the whole island there were but three miserable huts, and one of these was vacant when I arrived. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- The atmosphere presses with a force of 15 pounds upon every square inch of water in the large vessel, and forces some of it into the space left vacant by the retreating piston. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- His dim watery eyes were fixed on my face with an expression of vacant and wistful inquiry very painful to see. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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